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      CJRYSTAI , PALACE SEASOIT 1857-8 . . ;/" PBO&BASKE . ¦ ¦ ¦ . - ¦ ¦ » \ ' . . ' . ¦¦ ¦ ¦/ . - . . Pjcb Directors beg to announce that tliey have made the following arrangements for the ensuing season . ROYA 1 ITAXIAN OPERA CONCERTS . The SEASON will COMMENCE on FRIDAY , the 1 st of May , 1857 , with a GRAND MORNING CONCERT , by the artistes of the Royal Italian Opera These concerts having been honoured last year by such general approbation the Directors have entered into arrangements with Mr . Gye to give a . similar series of Twelve Concerts during the present Bosson . 'These concerts will be supported by the following celebrated artistes : — Madame Grisi , Mademoiselle Bosa Deyries , Mademoiselle Marai , Mademoiselle IHdi ^ e , Mademoiselle Parepa , -and . Madame Boeio . Signbr Mario , SignorRonconi , Signor Neri-Baraldi , Signor Oardoni , Signor Graziani , Herr Tonnes , Signer Tagliaiioo , Monsieur Zelger , Signer Polonim , and Signor 1 / flfelaohe . < Phe Rrand'opchestratrt -the Royal Ttalian Opera , -with additional performers , amdwlso the celebrated xshorus , are engaged for the whole series . The musical direction of the whole is in the liands of Mr . "Costa , who will himself conduct a portion of the concerts . "With the above assemblage of artistes it is hardly necessary for the Directors to state that the performances will be of the highest class , and capable of very great variety . The concerts will take place on the following Fridays , viz .: - ^ tf ay 1 st , 8 th , 15 th , 22 nd , 29 th , June 5 th ; 36 th , July 3 rd , lOtn , * 7 th , - 2 * th , 31 st . -- .. - ¦¦ The space allotted to the Concert-room last year ( extensive as it * ras ) having been , found quite inadequate to accommodate the audiences , the Directors have this season determined to give the concerts in the Great Transept . The two guinea season tickets will be available for these concerts . Transferable tickets will also be issued for each concert at 7 s , 6 d . each ; which tickets can be obtained at the Company ' s offices , or any of the agents . In compliance wiih a desire Svhich was universally ex-Tjressedlast season , alimited number of reserved stalls will be set apart , which may be taken for the Series of Twelve Concerts art one guinea each stall , or at half-a-crown each for a single concert . II . CONCERT of the COLOGNE OHOBAL UNION . The Directors have made arrangements with Mr . Mitchell for the services of the Cologne Choral "Union ( Kolner M ' aiimer < 3 esangverein ) , whose performances on their former visit have attracted enthusiastic adm . ira . tion , for a Concert in , the Oeatre ffraasept of the Palace , on Saturday , the 0 th -of . June . ' ¦ ¦ . :. ¦ ¦ ¦ . - .. ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ :. ¦ ¦¦ . .. ¦• - ¦ HJB . Both classes of seaesai tickets will beavailable for this concert . ¦ ¦ . ¦ : ¦ . . . : ¦ . ¦ .. . ¦ ... : ¦ ¦ , ¦¦ . ¦ ¦ -. HI . GRAJTD WATERWORKS . The displays of the vast system of fountains , cascades , and jeted'eau will be resumed , and continued during the whole season . The upper system will play daily as heretofore ; and the entire display , embracing the fountains of the grand basins , the water-temples , the cascades , and the whole of the upper ^ fountains , on occasions to be from time to time sxmoauoed . IV . FLOWER SHOWS . There -will be two grand horticultural and floriculfcural fetes during the present . season : The first on Saturday , the 30 th of May ; and Tne * eeon < lon Wednesday , Thursday , and Friday , the 9 th , 10 th , and 11 th of September . The prize Eat for the latter occasionincludes special prizes to amateurs . T . POETRY SHOWS . There will be Two Shows in the course of the coming season . The Summer Show will take place on the 7 th , 8 th , 10 th , 11 th , and 12 th of August . The Winter Show on the 9 th , 11 th , 12 th , and 18 th of January , 1858 . The schedules of the prizes , and copies of the regulations at both the Flower , atnd £ mmry Shosva , are now ready , and rnaybekad on application . VI . GEINT&RAIi ABRANGEMENTB of the BUILDINa . JExhibiiiohs OB PiOTtmEB . —ThiB picture gallery , formed during the past year iu the north wing * 4 Duo palace , has proved so fluooossful in ifca capabilities for the effective uisplay of paauiings , that it is the intention , of the Directors to Jiold tittorein during the present season two exhibitions of the woxikjB of living painters of all schools . Particular Attention has boon given to the foreign schools of paintao ^ . jwd iLrrnngwaenta have been made which tie Directors TieJUeve will ensure an exhibition of those works at ¦ once of great extent and of first-class quality . The firsA of these exhibitions will open iu May ,, and continue open during the auroraer . The eefloafl will be & winter exhibition . JBxhjjMticuns of pliOitpgna . phs will . also be lield in the upper J > orttan . « f the picture gallery from time to . time during the season . OKaAWXG . CoxrjiT .- 'The Directors are desirous to take the present opportunity of expressing their acknowledgments , ior the WJaaaud ready jnaonor in which their requests for loans for the Ceramic Court wero responded to by the owners of ^ collections of porcelain and pottery of the most rare , fragile , and valuable descriptions . But fcr the coniWanco thus placed in them , it would have . beon iinpoasiblefor fcho Directors to have formed the collcc-™ wnonfe fliwnlayea ^ n **» iBeram , io Court : a collection admitted *> y all to be unrivalled , and on which the hlgh-ost tmopmlunvj have hew universally bestowed . ' + 1 , * TS ^ W $ ^ toJh ©^ rcqtors to bo able to say tliafc ^ e fu rtner aid pfteitdthpm is such as will enable them to ™™ V £ i J « i&EP ^ 0 wni ? i » f ° r "the present season , witU a S « J 2 r « £ ^ MhS ** » P « cimons . exempfifving the capabjlivt& SxL in * J ? , ? * ^ b oratc brKnches . ^ r& ^^ zTsi ^ Bu * » ^ v " n , £ JftS «?* ^ f ^ JTtm oatB the Dirpotors hav . o to ao-^^ nL ^^^" ? ^^ £ . gratifying naturo as tUat m ^ Si ^ fttSSSS" 4 ^ } i bU ? companies wid institution * as welljas by privato individualB , tho Directors have been ontmsUd witli tho most valuablo and beautiful anodeh ^ withcoably carvings aud works Uxtvory and bronzo , fabiica : ? or - ^ feS ftr fc ' P ^^ W ; Hber XywVu readiness VhAi £ rl h ? lff ' £ 8 « ffl ^?» tly express tfioir obligations . SL ™* n ^«^ * i on 0 I i H atorially to Lmprtvo the Jndjan Court , and also to form a collection of Models o EnsdweprhiB VTorka-illuBtratine in dTvery comoloto him nor tjio ? firjarbranch of British skill and eXS ^^ urn ^ afna any StAcr now accessible to tflio publio ? ^ T will X % the

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      The . Naval MtffiBDM . —The exhibition under this denonrination . ta the first and second galleries of the north transept , fronting the garden , now contains about three hundred models of -Ships , Boats , atad Vessels , of all descriptions , affording an illustration of the progressive improvement in British Naval Architecture and Navigation during a period of three tnmdred and forty -years . It also contains specimens of new inventions connected with the improvement of navigation . The Directors beg here also to acknowledge the ready and extensive assistance which they have received from shipowners , shipbuilders , engineers , and shipping companies in forming this very interesting and national collection , and at the same time solicit the further aid of all parties who may have the means of extending it . Watex Towejib . —The Great Towers are now completed , and arrangements have been made by which , for a small charge , visitors to the Palace can ascend them and eujoy the extensive view from the balconies , where powerful telescopes Are about to be placed . Mammoth Thee . —An object of great interest has lately been added to the ) contents of the Palace , which will remain on exhibition during the whole of the coming season . The object alluded to is a portion of tho trunk of the Wellingtonia gigantea , or Mammoth Tree , being the largest of the group of those trees discovered , in California . The portion erected in the Tropical Transept , opposite the Abil Simbel figures , is no less than 103 feet in height , and . 32 feet iu diameter at the base . Exhibiting Depart 3 &est . —Amongst the branches of industry which uow find important illustration iii this department , may be mentioned the manufacture of Gold and bilver work and Electroplate , both domestic . -and artistic ; Vulcanite and India Rubber generally ; Colour Printing and Typography j Papier fitache , Ornamental Iron , Fancy Goods , and other productions of Birmingham . ; Domestic Furniture , Church Furniture , in sto-ne , wood , metal , and fabric ; Hardware generally , and especially the productions of Sheffield , in the court filled by the manufacturers of that . important centre of industry . . CAUApiAir Court . —The arrangements announced on . a former occasion with the Government of Canada are now , the Directors are happy-to report , complete . Tlie Government of Canada have undertaken to form , aud maintain in the Palace a collection which shall completely set forth the condition of the manufactures and other industry and re ~ sources of that important colony . At a time wlien so much , public attention is being directed to Canada , such a collection cannot but be both interesting and useful to those who may be intending to make that country their residence , as well as to those who have commercial relations therewith . In the circumstance that the collection has been originated and undertaken by the Canadian Government itself , and that a large sum of money has been voted for the purpose of its creation , and maintenance , a guarantee is afforded to the British public that it will be thoroughly well oarried out , and be a real representation of the commerce of the colonj ' . The collection will be placed in the laTge court lying between the News-room and the Stationery Court , immediately adjoining both the Nave and Centre Transept , and at present occupied by the sculpture of the German school . Raw Pbodttce Coxlectio » and Teaue Mpseum . —The Technological portion of this department is rapidly apprpacliing completion . It will comprise illustratioiis of all tlie chief manufactures of the United Kingdona ; and specimens of the products , animal , vegetable , and mineral , of Great Britain and the colonies , as well as of other countries . It is believed that it will be open to the public inthe course of the present summer . The department is situated in the second gallery on the garden side of the Great Transept . ' Machineett inHoxion . —The Machinery willbein action during the season at such times as will be announced in the detailed advertisements . The Machinery now . in the Department comprises a complete set of machinery for Spinning , Carding , Warping , Sizing , Weaving , and all the other processes for the manufacture of Cotton goods from the bale to tho thread , and from the thread to the finished £ iece , by Walker and Hacking , and Harrison and Co . ; athes , Shaping-machines , self-acting Planing , Drilling , and other machinery , by Whitworth , Muir , Harrison , and Co ., Else , and others ; Condie ' s Steam Hammer ; "Woods' Carpet Loom ; Winding Machinery . by Clark , of Leicester ; Centrifugal Pumps , by Appold , and Gwynne and Sons ; Centrifugal Sugar and sDrying Machines , by Slaulove and Alliott ; Steam Engines , by Goodfellow , Dunn Hattersley and Co ., and others ; Marine Engines with Screw Propeller , by Tod and M'Gregor ; and a great variety of other machines . AofiicuiiUBAii Ma . chinbb . t . —The Departmont of Agricultural Machinery aud Implements has been considerably improved during the past year . Specimens will be found there of the Portable steam Engines and all tho other now machines of tho chief manufacturers , and purchases can bo made at the same prices as at the warehouses of tho makers . Tho stock is continually receiving additions , and every moans is takou to make it a perfect representation of tho state of one of tho most important brauchos of modern industry . Reading Hoom- —Tho Company ' s Reading and News Room is situated close to tho Centre Q ' ransupt , between it and the German Sculpture Court . It contains all the Morning . Journals ; the Weekly Papers , Metropolitan and Pro-vincial ; and all the Periodicals and Magazines . In addition to this , advertisements and copies of new works , both British and fp * eign , aro displayed uumcdiately after publication . Fancy Fairs . —Tho Directors are prepared to afford accommodation to benevolent and other socioties , Cor holding fancy fairs in tho Palace during the season . ClUCJCEI . AjtOHEUT , AND IJtE GROUNDS aENEUASLT . — It gives the Directors great pleasure toannounco that tho CrJckei-jground is now complete , and that it will bo thoroughly in order tor . the approaching summer . Great care has oeew taken in tho formation of tho ground , and they boliovp that it will be found fully equal in oxteufc and excellence-to auy other iu tho neighbourhood of Jjondon . TUo Ar , ohpry-: grou » d will bo continued , as before , in tho northern portionoi' tho grounds , belxlnd the Picture Gallory Wing . Considerable progress haB been xxmdo towards tlio . coniploiioai of the ornameutal grounds iu tlio lower j > ortlou , of tho Ktu-k . in the vjoinity of tlao Orickcii-Rround aud tho Lovvor Laltej waste ports havo been cultivated , alirubborios planted , aud now walks vaado . and the whole rendered much moro agrooa-blo find -convenient of access than it was laat suosou . VII . SEASON TICKETS . Tho Directors liavo doterm . in . od upon coutinulng tho prico of Season Tickets of admission at tlio following witoa , viz .: I . 8 BASON 1 U 0 KBXS ( NOT THANePKBAlU-K ) , AVAJLAJ 1 LU IROM 1 BX MAY , 1857 , TO 30 T | I AFB . ll ' , 18 BB , X \ YO OVINJJAB atAO « . 'l'lvoso tickets will admit tho holder—To tho whole of tho Twelve- Opera Concerts . To tho Conoort of thoOoJogno Choral Union , on "tho Oth Juno .

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      To-the Flower Shows on May 80 , * i * d Sent bu ^ "" To-alKhe displays « f « he « rand ^ rft ^ ns : * ' " ^ «•> To the Poultry S " hows on AugustT , « , « , w . ajna ,,. _ On all ordinary days-in fact , on every oieMii «\ L 2 ** May 1 ,-I 857 , « ad April S 6 , 1858 , on whiohfeVftjSSlS **^ the four days of the Handel Festival , v ^ StwMS ? ; lVth , and 19 th June , -only exoepted . 13 th « * 5 th , II . SEASON TICKETS ( NOT TEASBPEKABUB > , Avitt . FKOM IBS VAX , 1857 , to SOtH APBIX , 1858 . m ^ . These tickets admit -the holder on all tbe occasions « . above , excepting the Opera Concerts , and theothe ? V 22 i ( I throughout the year , and the 13 tb , 15 th , 17 th , andMfch ^*^ being the four days of the Handel Festival aaai 9 th - one , Tho -tickets will be issued on aud after the 2 nrt . t ., ^ . , and may be obtained at the Crystal ffi ft t \ m SS " '' the Company , ^ . Lombard-street ; . afcttSSfaSaS Sfe don and . Brighton lUilway Company , London-brid ^ » ; Regent-circus , PiccadUly ; Central Handel FesS ^^ nd O £ oe , Exeter Sail ; and at the lollofrinemSto ^^ , ^ ' A . Bebbingtou , 43 . G , Strand ; George A . Galder . 1 "Rn thurst-stroet , Hyde Paik-gardens ; Cramer Be ^^ V ^* 201 , Regent-street : Duffand Hodgson . ^^ otftfi ^' M . Hammond and Nephew , 27 , Lombard-street- V ^ h Hermingham and- Co ., 5 , Mouut-street , Grosveaor ' -soiiiw " Kevth , Prowse , and Co ., 48 , Cheapside ; Letts , Son aS A . Iteyal Esehanoo ; Mead and Powell , RaUway a& London-bridge ; J . Mitchell , "S 3 . Old Bond-street- \ vv ' Sams , 1 , St . ^ ames ' s-street ; John Henry Smith " ¦> « ,. „' sham-street , Bank ; W . R . Stephens , 86 , Thvosmo ^ n street ^ ; Charles -WeaMrton , 20 , St . Oeorge ^ pia ^^^; Eemittances for Season Tickets to be by post-ofiBee orders payable to-George drove . "' w iwoers VIH . GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL . It gives the Directors great gratification to be ablpM announce that they have entered into arrangements wi + h the Sacred Harmonic Society for a Grand-Series offWi Performances of Handel ' s Oratorios , to take place in 31 Centre Transept of the Palace in the month of June Her Majesty and H . R . H . Prince Albert nave been rm ciously pleased to extend their especial patronago to the Festival , and have expressed their intention of honouring it with their presence . b Ihe performances on this great occasion will be on ike mo 3 t gigantic scale , far exceeding anything of a similar nature hitherto proposed or carriedout in this or any other country . The Orchestra will number upwards of 2500 executants , including all the principal performers , vocal and instrumental , and an immense reinforcement of amateurs from the musical societies of thjjmetropolis , the provincial towns and districts , and other . sources . An organ of great power has just been constructed by the well-known builders Gray and Davison , expressly for the festival , and its erection in the Palace is now rapidly proceeding . The Directors have much pleasure in stating that Sir . Costa has aoeepted the office of Conductor . The Oratorios performed willbeihe three mostcekbraieil masterpieces of Handel : " The Messiaii , " on Monday , June 15 . " Judas Maccabeus , " on Weanesday , Juue 17 . " Israel iu Egypt , " on Friday , Juue 19 . The Festival will form the subject of an eutirely separate subscription , and the Annual Season Tickets of the Crystal Palace will not be available tor any of the performances . The price of stalls on the floor of the Palace , reserved and numbered , is fixed at one guinea each for each oratorio . If taken as a set , for the whole three at one time , two guineas and a half . A limited number of reserved stalls will be set apart in the Galleries , which will be disposed of in sets . i . e ., for the whole three Oratorios , at five guineas per set . By a "set" is meant a ticket securing one stall for the whole of tlie three performances . These tickets will be transferable . Tiokets inay now be secured at the Handel Festival Ticket Oftice , No . a , iu Exeter-hall ; at the Crystal Palace ; andafc the Temporary Oilices of the Company , 79 , Lombard-street . Further particulars will be announced from time to time . IX . —RATES OF ADMISSION , RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS , &c . Ordinary Raies op Admission . — . These remain as before , viz : On Mondays , Tuesdays , Wednesdays , Thursdays , aud Fridays .,.,. 1 b . Oil . On Saturdays ..... • . — 2 s < b ( i > Children under 12 years cf age Half-price . Tho Palace will bo opened on Mondays at 9 A . M . ; on Tuesdays , Wednesdays , Thursdays , and Fridays at 10 ; excepting on tho days of tho concerts by the Opera Coiapany , on which days , and on Saturdays , it will be opened at 12 ; closing daily about sunset . .,. ¦ . . * Brighton Ra . ixway . —DuviUK the season , the trains of tho London and Brighton Railway Company will leave London-bridge Station every haAf-hour , and during busy days every quarter ol an hour , from 9 o ' clock a . m . till dunk , returning from tho Palace at the same intervals tliroughout tho day . ( For exact times of starting , see tho liaihvay Company ' s time tables . ) . _ , ilfceturn fares , including admission to tlio Palace-1 st Class . 2 nd Class . 8 rd Class . On Shilling Days 2 s . Gd . 2 s . Od . is . ttd . On Halt' -Crown Days 4 s . 0 d . 3 s . 0 d . , Js , 8 ( i . Ohildren under 12 years of age , Half-price West-Knd Railway . —Tho opening or this Hue to . Hie Wandsworth Station has already been attended witli groat convenience to -visitors to the Palace , and it re vritU niucii pleasurothat tho Direotors anticipate the completion of tlie whole liiio to tho Sloano-street St atioii , as well as the juncttou with tho main line of tho Sonth-Westem KailYny nt tlie Clapham Common Station , in tho course ol tho . coraing soason . An access will thus bo opened for the rcstdont i m Hyde-park , Belgravia , and Brompton , arid the other Westend districts , as well as for tlio nelghtoourlioods of lUtii mond , Windsor , and Hampton-court by » W P « eoonomy of time-will be etlected , and still furthor convc nionoo afl'orded to tho public . . ..,.,. <• „„ , „ 11 , << Mid-Kent RAU . WAY .-Tho portion of this lin ° . J » M station of tUo South-Eastern Railway at Londoii-bria ^ c io . Beokenham has boon opened , and tho cxtonsion to ¦ x « Crystal Palace Station will bo shortly completed , v h « c tf an easy aecesa will be ail ' orded to tho residents in tlio . Lewis ham ai » d . iilackkoatli districts . , ,,, i , iiv which ExcottBioN 0 .-Arrau « cinonts havo bcoii ; mn-do b , v * ii benovolent aocictias , h&iqoU , and other large bodicb » visit tlio Pala . ec at tho following reduced raloa-ui > l > O' »~ only to hhilliue < laya aud tliird-cluss camagos : t , For a number « t" excursionists h . d . , ] f [ 1 ' {; over 200 and under 0 O 0 1 3 per head instead ol i rf Kxocedtug 000 tiud undor 7 fi () 12 „ " , , ; HxceediiiK 750 and under 1000 I % •> " i r > Jixcccdlng 1000 1 » « » Children , liiLlf-prico . ( Slguod ) ARTIIUli ANDliltSOJOT , Chainimii . JAA 1 JJS PJiiJtUUBSOjS , « WMjrnlJU * wnfci . i .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 18, 1857, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2189/page/22/